I do understand your disappointment at discovering that your trolling was not trolling at all, but quite a reasonable post in light of MySQL crash problems on OpenBSD 3.3_STABLE;-)
Hmmph. Maybe I should just post messages calling the MySQL developers 'fagosexuals' or something similar.
I hold posts of that type in total contempt, along with GNAA posts. Trolls just to annoy are just that, very briefly annoying, and then quickly forgotten.
Good trolls with a provokative (and informed) kernel of truth may trigger quite many interesting and useful posts.
Sorry to say, but you dont have a clue what you are talking about.
For the moderators, I've actually published work in peer reviewed journals, and I stand by my above comment. He still got no clue, and it's not flamebait.
Maybe I should've used more abbreviations in the last few sentences. I would've thought that using the abbreviation "BS" in that context would've given me away, but no!
MySQL on OpenBSD 3.3_STABLE has some issues (related to threads) that are fixed in CURRENT. The problem was frequent crashing of MySQL.
Why not try out PostgreSQL? Perhaps you have some conditions not best met by MySQL.
For our product (on Windows, alas) we use
Mimer SQL that is available on several platforms. Granted, they are closed source, but runs on several platforms, and a trial version (up to 10 concurrent connections) are freely downloadable.
It's also my experience as a proprietary software developer that QA varies wildy, even internally in the company. This is not just a developer issue; we need managment on our side. If the managment sees QA as just "money bloat", we've got a problem.
As for regression/unit testing : unless the software arcitecture supporting this, it will not be done. Quite simply because it's time consuming, and changing the arcithecture might very well be too costly. However, there are Open Source tools available, like for C++
test lib. Similar tools excists for Java, based on ideas from one of The Gang of Four in Design Patterns.
At last we actually have a peer reviewed published article on Slashdot main page! Actually, I could not believe it at first,
but the link confirms it. Beeing somewhat wise, I downloaded the article before it got Slashdoted:-)
Germany has a long list of incidents of restricting the peoples right to access information and entertainment by claiming to protect youth and society.
As far as I am aware, no software spoofs the Referer header by changing it to another URI. So simply block the people whose referring URI begins with 'http://' and does not come from your domain.
The privacy software
Privoxy
lets you spoof the Referer header.
You may either set it manually, like "http://NoneOfYourFucking.Business"
or let Privoxy spoof by setting the Refererer to the site you visit.
If a new "privacy enhancer" or whatever appears that does spoof the referrer with a false URI, simply exempt those from your checks.
wget is quite useful for unattended ftp download since it can automatically continue/retry an aborted download. But slow lines is a problem for users, not only for downloading ISO, but also for getting updates.
Sadly for you, modern linux distros are quite capable of resizing preset partitions.
Resizing NTFS partition is not supported by SuSE, and I would gather SuSE is modern enough for you? If resizing NTFS was so very safe, I gather SuSE would have included it by now.
(then again, it's 5 am in the morning, I think I can barely be qualified as sentient atm)
I'm not sure that 5 in the morning has anything to do with you beeing sentient or not.
So to put it in a simple way: What's the fecking problem!?
You don't have a program that can resize your Windows partition and you need to re-install. Besides if you manange to screw up your Windows partition (say, got infected by a virus), you don't want to overwrite your Linux partition while re-installing Windows, eh?
My guess is that SuSE does doesn't offer ISO in order to sell more retail boxes, of course. The manuals for the Pro version are quite good (900 pages). If you know someone with good connection, you may mirror part of the suse ftp server, and do a local ftp install.
OpenBSD does not offer free ISO either, for similar reasons. Sale of CD's are important for the project. Again, you may do an ftp-install.
And USA has been a shining beacon of civil rights for those escaping oppressive regimes. But new laws made professor Jim Cornehls conclude
in the
The USA PATRIOT ACT that :
If another power were to occupy the United States and institute the policies provided for in the USA PATRIOT Act--secret arrests, secret trials, secret investigations, secret deportations--the United States would be considered a police state.
So is this the way the search engine competition will be won? Through patents and lawsuits?
The EU is in the process of modifying patent laws and practices, partly after US/corporate pressure. Hopefully we can avoid the worst of the US patent excesses along with it's accompanying lawsuits.
Just reading the abstract of
Patent # 5,884,282
shows how fucked up the US patent system is. And US is pressurizing EU to introduce similar patent practices. Yuck!
Out of interest, has anyone heard any comment from SuSE over the SCO thing?
Some time this spring there was a press release on SuSE
homepage saying to the effect that they had no idea what SCO is talking about, and that they strive to honour all copyright/licencse obligations.
Slashdot Mirror
Hmmph. Maybe I should just post messages calling the MySQL developers 'fagosexuals' or something similar.
I hold posts of that type in total contempt, along with GNAA posts. Trolls just to annoy are just that, very briefly annoying, and then quickly forgotten. Good trolls with a provokative (and informed) kernel of truth may trigger quite many interesting and useful posts.
I'd rather be King Lear as opposed to his fool.
You might want to reconsider :
For the moderators, I've actually published work in peer reviewed journals, and I stand by my above comment. He still got no clue, and it's not flamebait.
MySQL on OpenBSD 3.3_STABLE has some issues (related to threads) that are fixed in CURRENT. The problem was frequent crashing of MySQL.
Sometimes trolls are right.
Actually, you are less trolling than you might think.
Sorry to say, but you dont have a clue what you are talking about.
For our product (on Windows, alas) we use Mimer SQL that is available on several platforms. Granted, they are closed source, but runs on several platforms, and a trial version (up to 10 concurrent connections) are freely downloadable.
Go check out OpenBSD for a second opinion.
As for regression/unit testing : unless the software arcitecture supporting this, it will not be done. Quite simply because it's time consuming, and changing the arcithecture might very well be too costly. However, there are Open Source tools available, like for C++ test lib. Similar tools excists for Java, based on ideas from one of The Gang of Four in Design Patterns.
Yuck! Somewhat above the level of GNAA then, unless he's the original author.
For all your sarcasm, you pretty much summed up quite alot of projects.
Kudos for editors for publishing the story.
Exactly, just today ;-)
Well troll, pray tell me, why do the German state fund the Open Source project Anonymity is not a Crime (JAP)? Go have a look at FAQ Concept. In particular, note that JAP project also provides anonymity and protection from observation against the operator
I'm pretty certain such a project won't get funding by DARPA today.
The privacy software Privoxy lets you spoof the Referer header. You may either set it manually, like "http://NoneOfYourFucking.Business" or let Privoxy spoof by setting the Refererer to the site you visit.
If a new "privacy enhancer" or whatever appears that does spoof the referrer with a false URI, simply exempt those from your checks.
Spoofed. See above.
I did. Thx for the link.
wget is quite useful for unattended ftp download since it can automatically continue/retry an aborted download. But slow lines is a problem for users, not only for downloading ISO, but also for getting updates.
How do you know that you have not downloaded a trojaned version of WinXP?
Resizing NTFS partition is not supported by SuSE, and I would gather SuSE is modern enough for you? If resizing NTFS was so very safe, I gather SuSE would have included it by now.
That said, 5 am is a very good excuse, canadian.
Excuse for waht? Overbearing ranting?
I'm not sure that 5 in the morning has anything to do with you beeing sentient or not.
So to put it in a simple way: What's the fecking problem!?
You don't have a program that can resize your Windows partition and you need to re-install. Besides if you manange to screw up your Windows partition (say, got infected by a virus), you don't want to overwrite your Linux partition while re-installing Windows, eh?
My guess is that SuSE does doesn't offer ISO in order to sell more retail boxes, of course. The manuals for the Pro version are quite good (900 pages). If you know someone with good connection, you may mirror part of the suse ftp server, and do a local ftp install.
OpenBSD does not offer free ISO either, for similar reasons. Sale of CD's are important for the project. Again, you may do an ftp-install.
If another power were to occupy the United States and institute the policies provided for in the USA PATRIOT Act--secret arrests, secret trials, secret investigations, secret deportations--the United States would be considered a police state.
Sadly so, it's indeed ironic.
The EU is in the process of modifying patent laws and practices, partly after US/corporate pressure. Hopefully we can avoid the worst of the US patent excesses along with it's accompanying lawsuits.
Just reading the abstract of Patent # 5,884,282 shows how fucked up the US patent system is. And US is pressurizing EU to introduce similar patent practices. Yuck!
Some time this spring there was a press release on SuSE homepage saying to the effect that they had no idea what SCO is talking about, and that they strive to honour all copyright/licencse obligations.
The latest questionary from RedHat (to keep my demo account) did have questions hinting at this.
You will however have to wait until Monday
Won't stop /.'ers from speculating and theorizing, though.